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Becca Thorne
@beccathorne.bsky.social
Parent of 2 wonderful autistic boys, accidental artist, occasional writer & mountain-lover (Afraid of heights). #cPTSD https://artachart.com/
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An updated image of some recent work, with me for scale!
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Nature Based Solutions are not tree hugging responses to the climate crisis. Serious people are persuading companies and utilities to spend serious money on green (grass) rather than grey (concrete) flood prevention. Rob Gardner CEO @rebalanceearth.bsky.social

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Financing nature-based flood relief
Rob Gardner, Natural Asset Investment manager argues nature-based flooding solutions give you more bang for your buck than traditional concrete and steel protection.
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February 7, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment”

How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods.
#RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm

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Flood Prevention
Is the way we are farming partly responsible for flooding, and what changes might decrease damage in the future? Geomorphologist Prof Mary Bourke. Sligo Farmers Eddie Davitt and Joe Leonard. Farming F...
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February 7, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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Why the weather wobbled?

Dr Jennifer Francis is one of the best #climate science communicators anywhere. She simplifies the incredibly complex forces degrading the Jet Stream to explain why our weather is increasingly getting stuck. #RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm

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The Jet Stream is stuck
Leading Jet Stream expert Dr Jennifer Francis explains how the fast-moving current that used to ensure changeable weather is increasingly getting stuck.
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February 7, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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🗓️ Webinar alert! 🔔

A new study from @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social and @mason4c.bsky.social finds that Americans care about climate change more than you think.

RSVP to join the conversation on Feb 10 at 12pm ET:
Americans Care About Climate Change More Than You Think — Covering Climate Now
Climate change is less visible in US news coverage these days, but journalists should know that the public still cares about it — and wants to hear more about it from journalists and political leaders...
coveringclimatenow.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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Four paintings from tne 'Bush flowers' series, by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Australian Indigenous artist from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt
February 6, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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China’s #solar capacity set to overtake coal in ‘historic’ shift. #Wind and solar combined are projected to account for about half of #China’s total installed power capacity.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
China’s solar capacity set to overtake coal in ‘historic’ shift
Wind and solar combined are projected to account for about half of China’s total installed power capacity
www.independent.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Meet the Co-Chairs Leading AMOC in Focus

Introducing Hans Pörtner and Gerard McCarthy as the Co-Chairs of the newly launched Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Report—AMOC in Focus, a joint assessment by JPI Climate and JPI Oceans.

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#cop30 #amoc #climatescience #oceancirculation #jpioceans #jpiclimate | JPI Oceans
Meet the Co-Chairs Leading AMOC in Focus Introducting Hans Pörtner and Gerard McCarthy as the Co-Chairs of the newly launched Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Knowledge Report ini...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Great, incredibly fast work here from the WasItUs team at ICARUS Maynooth @clairebergin.bsky.social and @lionel-swan.bsky.social looking at flooding from storm Chandra.
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Rainfall accumulation caused Chandra flooding - study
A rapid study of Storm Chandra by climate scientists has found it was the accumulation of rainfall over seven days, including on the day of the storm, rather than the amount of rainfall during the sto...
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January 30, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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Portrait of a handsome Lurcher, painted in 2015. Soft pastels on archival quality paper measuring 37.5 x 55cm 😊
June 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Not sure whether the two boys have yet twigged this means a whole week of benign parenting in their future … 🤣
A completely unexpected piece of news! I’m overwhelmed and enormously excited. Such a privilege and I’m so very grateful to astonishing artist Frances Bell & www.workshopsinyorkshire.com for giving me such an extraordinary opportunity.
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
A completely unexpected piece of news! I’m overwhelmed and enormously excited. Such a privilege and I’m so very grateful to astonishing artist Frances Bell & www.workshopsinyorkshire.com for giving me such an extraordinary opportunity.
February 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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How to stay up to date with river levels, flood risk and forecasts - the apps & websites, what they tell you & don't

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
How to stay up to date with river levels, flood risk and forecasts
Several resources worth checking, although no convenient one-stop location for this valuable data
www.irishtimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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Supreme Court judgement on Coolglass:
February 4, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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My current and ongoing project has reached a point where I am settled with its direction. Would love to hear any feedback and more than happy if you want to share.

jevoncarey.myportfolio.com/stuff

#photography #beleiveinfilm #landscapephotography #blackandwhitephotography #EastCoastKin
jevon carey - Five Years In Fenland
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February 4, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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This is a wonderful series of images.... and a thought-provoking and insightful read.
My current and ongoing project has reached a point where I am settled with its direction. Would love to hear any feedback and more than happy if you want to share.

jevoncarey.myportfolio.com/stuff

#photography #beleiveinfilm #landscapephotography #blackandwhitephotography #EastCoastKin
jevon carey - Five Years In Fenland
jevoncarey.myportfolio.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Today’s goal: $400! Any amount helps - buy art or donate to the disabled artists sick day fund!
I am trying to raise $1,800 to present an art show called “Solidarity As An Art Supply.”

The point of this show is to explore ways to “do solidarity” in the art world.

This $ will be used for printing and framing materials.

As a supporter, you will receive the work of art of your choice!
Liz Awesome
Liz Awesome
LizAwesome.Art
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Oil sketching with just olive and warm white #oilpainting #landscape #wicklowmountains #irishart
February 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Oil sketching with just olive and warm white #oilpainting #landscape #wicklowmountains #irishart
February 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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'I started as the poetry critic for The Sunday Times in January 2022. “Your main qualification,” the books editor said, offering me the role, “is that you have no friends.” Reviewing poetry for four years, I’ve even fewer friends now.' Love this opener from @ravoon.bsky.social.
The 3 rules for writing great poems — by our poetry critic
Graeme Richardson waited until he was 50 to publish his first poetry collection, Dirt Rich. He explains how he fell in love with language as a Nottinghamshire choir boy
www.thetimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:52 PM